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<h2>Lasker Chess Server</h2>

This is an enhanced chess server based on the 'lasker' chess server
from <a href="http://chessd.sourceforge.net/">http://chessd.sourceforge.net/</a>

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For more details please see the <a href="/ftp/unpacked/lasker/README">README</a>

<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li> lots and lots of bugs fixed
<li> timeseal support added (see 
<a href="/ftp/unpacked/lasker/timeseal/README">timeseal/README</a> for details)
<li> server configuration via 'aconfig' command instead of config.h
<li> added multi-part command parsing (commands separated by ';')
<li> enhanced aliases
<li> build/install process fixed
<li> fixed help system
<li> transparent server reload (upgrade without disturbing connections
or games)
<li> plus lots more &#8230;
</ul>


<h2>Download</h2>

Tar balls of released version are available <a href="/ftp/lasker/">here</a>

<h2>cvs</h2>

I recommend you download the source using anonymous cvs. The following
command should do it:

<pre>
   cvs -z5 -d :pserver:cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot co lasker
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Then to get updates do the following:

<pre>
  cd lasker
  cvs -z5 update -dP
</pre>

<h2>Mailing list</h2>

If you wish to discuss the development of Lasker then please join the
<a
href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chessd-general">chessd-general</a>
mailing list at <a href="http://chessd.sourceforge.net/">http://chessd.sourceforge.net/</a>

<h2>Latest release</h2>

The latest release is 2.2.3. This release adds:

<ul>
<li>new command "remote"
<li>fixed several bugs in algebraic move parsing for ambiguous moves
<li>fixed promotion using = notation
<li>fixed time handling on first move
<li>fixed handling of '$' commands
<li>changed mam alias to use xtell
<li>reduced CPU usage in server dramatically
<li>fixed several crash bugs
<li>added logging of admin commands
</ul>

<h2>News</h2>

<ul>
<li>June 12th 2002. First announcement of CVS version of enhanced lasker
<li>June 13th 2002. Added ability to reload the server code (upgrade)
without disturbing games or connections.
<li>June 13th 2002. Released lasker-2.0.tar.gz
<li>June 18th 2002. Released lasker-2.0.1.tar.gz
<li>June 22nd 2002. Released lasker-2.1.0.tar.gz
<li>June 23rd 2002. Released lasker-2.2.0.tar.gz
<li>June 29th 2002. Released lasker-2.2.1.tar.gz
<li>July 1st  2002. Released lasker-2.2.2.tar.gz
<li>July 22nd 2004. Released lasker-2.2.3.tar.gz
</ul>

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<a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a><br>
<a href="mailto:bugs@chess.samba.org">bugs@chess.samba.org</a>
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